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Chapter 34
Rei
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hat the actual fuck was happening? We were so close. Wren would brew the potion while we were all at work. Then, I would cause a power outage at dinner. We would be gone before they rounded everyone up for count and realized we were missing.
So why were both BrodyandVenus in the mess hall for breakfast? Brody looked like all his body hair got melted off during the explosion. It just made his slimy features look meaner, and he sure was glaring at me throughout breakfast.
Brody was the one who escorted Venus into the mess hall. She had to have come straight from medical because her head was high, and she glared at me like she’d already won as she took her seat with the witches. I guess she didn’t noticeeveryonestarted whispering when she entered the room and not in a good way.
Everyone knew about the bounty on Venus’s head except Venus. I was trying not to laugh when she made what she thought was her triumphant return, and the witches were trying to fill her in. She looked like someone had pissed in her cornflakes if they actually gave us cereal here. It was beautiful.
Every single gang was glaring at the witch table. The vampires had their fangs out, and all the shifters were growling. Faust got super interested in a hangnail. If a riot started, he’d put it out, but he wouldn’t protect her. He wanted Venus good and dead.
I heard all the rumors about how stupid and incompetent Brody was. He must have some serious blackmail material on the warden here if he was back on the floor after fucking an inmate and trying to kill me. Everyone was mad about the whole fucking a witch thing, but I was taking it personally that he tried to kill me for the witches.
I was a petty little bitch who abused my new powers. I twirled my finger under the table and made his baton shock him. Not enough to kill him because I didn’t want to bring attention to me and the fact that I had magic, but enough to make me feel good.
Brody jumped and swore. Rajack told me he liked to shock people for shits and giggles. If I weren’t leaving here tonight, I would make Brody never want to pick up that baton again for fear of it turning on him. Wren started giggling because she knew it was me.
Brody didn’t know what it was, and he needed to get mad at something, so he started screaming at the entire mess hall.
“Focus on your fucking food, or I’ll send every last one of you to solitary!”
When I was in high school, some jocks would hide insults in a fake cough. That was apparently a thing in prison too, but someone faked a cough and called him an inmate fucker. Brody whirled around and raised his baton over his head.
“Who the fuck said that?” he yelled.
I chose that moment to give him another shock. Brody shrieked like a girl and flung his baton against the wall. The entire prison started laughing, and Faust finally jumped in. He escorted Brody out of the mess hall and then glared at everyone until they stopped.
“Don’t forget where you are, assholes. You don’t have to like him, but he outranks you. No one here has any problem with any of you rotting in the hole if you need to prove some macho prison point with your gang by coming for him.”
I had to respect the fact that Faust could threaten the entire mess hall, and they would instantly shut up. The witches were still leaned in together, furiously whispering. Venus was probably trying to figure out a way out of this, but it was a little late for that.
The witches left before they finished their food. Venus wasn’t taking any chances. She was getting out of there with her body shield of witches while everyone feared Faust. I saw Brody waiting outside the mess hall door for the witches. Okay, what exactly did Brody have on the warden? He didn’t need to be anywhere near the witches if he thought of sleeping with inmates as part of his job duties.
The bell finally rang to dismiss us to work. I had about a million questions for Faust. I finally exploded when we got to his office, and he shut the door.
“Why is Brody back?” I demanded.
“Because the warden thinks his shit doesn’t stink because they are related. I know that was you causing his baton to short. Be careful, Rei. Whatever magic you have isn’t like Brody’s because he can’t sense it, but we don’t need anyone investigating why only Brody’s baton is shorting.”
I pouted because I knew he was right. It was just so much fun when he made that shrieking noise. If I could melt his eyebrows off a second time, I would. That asshole tried to kill me.
“I was just having a little fun. He tried to kill me.”
“I haven’t forgotten that, and Brody will pay. I just can’t do anything about it right now because Warden Snow has decided I’m that fucking warlock’s babysitter. I’d rather just snap his scrawny neck, but I can’t even let one of the inmates do it, or I’ll probably get fired. That witch has me by the balls, and I told her several ways what a bad idea this was.”
“I’m sure you’ve got some epic wolf nuts that will figure it out.”
Faust’s features darkened, and his face broke into this sexy smile.
“I didn’t know you thought about my junk, Rei.”
Faust looked sexy as hell, and he’d never been so obvious hitting on me before. I liked this side of Faust. I really wanted to run over to him, climb his hard body like a stripper pole, and find out once and for all what that beard felt like on my face. He looked like he wouldn’t fight me either.
“Fuck this whole prison thing,” I grunted, collapsing in one of his chairs.
